Summer/Fall 2010 - University of the Cumberlands

ALUMNI NEWS
Donovan Fielce Daulton ,’72, lives in
Lexington, Kentucky. He retired from
Toyota Motors Manufacturing in 2005 and
is now a substitute teacher.
Judy Rose Main Langford, ’78, married
Edwin Langford, ’79, in 1984. They live in
Frankfort, with her three children and two
grandchildren.
1980’s
Randall Dobson ,’81, and his wife Janice
Lee Turner Dobson, ’82, currently reside
in Ankara, Turkey, where Randall is a test
engineer employed by the Boeing Company.
Robert George Farrell, ’81, resides in
Whitinsville, Mass., where he has retired as
the director of Hanover Theatre.
James Roy Hume, ’82, lives in Newburgh,
Ind., with his wife Dr. Laura Gayle Schultz
and his son Joseph, 3. His first wife Vickie
Ann Hume passed away on April 17, 2007,
following the birth of their son. James and
Laura were married on December 31, 2008.
Keith Gannon, ’85, has been named to the
University of Kentucky Board of Directors.
He is CEO and principal owner of Boneal,
Inc., a nationally recognized provider
of manufacturing services, sourcing,
procurement and logistics support to both
public and private clients. He earned his
Ph.D. in physical chemistry and worked as
a research scientist at BASF Corporation
before coming to Boneal. He and his wife,
Georgetta Hollon Gannon, ’85, are the
parents of two daughters.
1990’s
Michael Royer, ’91, was a candidate
for representative from Ohio’s 18th
Congressional District in the 2010
Republican primary. He lives in Carroll,
County, Ohio, and has been a police officer
in Carroll and Tuscarawas counties, and has
worked as a machine operator at Colfor
Manufacturing, Inc. in Malvern, Ohio.
ALUMNI ARTS SPOTLIGHT
Brittney Venable’01
Brittney Venable has taken her theatre dreams all the way from Whitley
County to the stages of New York. “When people think of professional
theatre, Broadway. . . immediately comes to mind,” said Venable. However,
she has a different view of theatre and how she wants to fulfill her own
aspirations.
At Cumberlands, as a communications and theatre major, Venable acted
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in several campus productions and worked as the lead news anchor and the program manager for the campus TV station, and she was
not certain about pursuing a career in theatre. After graduation, she worked for two years at WKDP, a Corbin radio station, where she
gained experience behind the scenes as news director and special events coordinator, and on-air as co-host of “Brittney and the King in the
Morning.” Then, missing the theatre and assessing the considerable skills she had acquired at the radio station, she realized she wanted to
go into theatre management. She earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from Texas Tech, as she wanted to grow up a bit more before moving
to New York.
Venable has relied on much she learned at Cumberlands, saying that everyone on campus had always
been supportive. “One of the most important things I learned is, “Rejection is okay,” she said. She enjoyed
doing everything in the theatre at Cumberlands from building sets to appearing on stage. “I had the
opportunity to see where I could excel. I learned to go and pitch in; to do what has to be done; push to
excel.”
In New York, Venable has worked with the Children’s Orchestra, and now she has “a day job” as an event
planner for a hedge fund, in its philanthropic efforts. But her heart is in the theatre. She has appeared in
and worked in numerous productions, mostly with new and emerging playwrights and in independent
films, and at the Tribeca Film Festival She has done backer’s readings for producers, worked with Workshop
Theatre Company, done voice-overs and conducted workshops at South Plains College in Levelland,
Texas, and throughout these and all her other her endeavors, she has followed one tenet, “Always do your
best. Keep going forward.”
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Brittney Venable as Lady McBeth in a recent production of the
Shakespeare classic, pictured with an unidentified actor.
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